2015 Archive Stories Garden Grove-Westminster

Westminster celebrated the spring season with a big party on Saturday and everyone was invited. There was entertainment from local students, shopping, a candy scramble and numerous other activities at the Spring Festival held at the Civic Center. The event was resurrected last year after an eight-year hiatus.

Electronics, food and clothing were stolen from a Garden Grove middle school office early Monday morning before someone set a small fire inside of a storage cabinet.
Garden Grove police and fire officials responded to reports of a fire shortly after 3:30 a.m. at Leroy L. Doig Intermediate School, 12752 Trask Avenue, police Sgt

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear an appeal over whether his last contract with Crystal Cathedral Ministries was an employment or retirement agreement – the difference between $615,000 and potentially $5 million – has been denied.
The court’s decision was announced Monday morni

The landscape along Harbor Boulevard between Lampson Avenue and Garden Grove Boulevard looks a lot different than it did a year ago.Construction of the Great Wolf Lodge Southern California, a 603-room hotel and 121,000-square-foot water park in the city of Garden Grove, is moving along swiftly. The lobby, hotel and park structures ar

Her friends raced to make a most special delivery on Sunday, arriving at her Westminster home at 7 a.m. sharp and hoping Jodi Oliver would still be alive to see what they brought.From the back of a cargo van, they unloaded nearly a dozen 5-gallon buckets filled with all the sunflowers they could find from Los Angeles and Orange count

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller may learn Monday if the United States Supreme Court will hear his appeal over whether the last contract he signed with Crystal Cathedral Ministries, in 2005, was an employment or retirement agreement.At stake is $5 million he is seeking from the ministry as a retirement package. A bankruptcy court awarded

Narcotics detectives have arrested two men after dismantling a hash oil lab in Westminster, police said.
Around noon Thursday, authorities went to a business in the 6400 block of Industry Way after getting a call about potential health and safety violations, according to the Westminster Police Department.
Detectives spoke to some

When “How to Fight in Six Inch Heels” comes to Orange County this weekend, it will be a sort of homecoming for the film that has roots here but found major success on the other side of the world – in Vietnam.It’s the story of Anne, a bespectacled junior designer at a New York City fashion house, as she travels

Does your home have what it takes to be the pride of Garden Grove? That’s what the city’s volunteer judges will determine from now until April 12 – as they peruse Garden Grove and select 23 houses from each of 17 zones in the city; each zone has about 3,000 houses. The owners of the best-looking houses will be hon

Remember, don’t text and drive – or eat and drive or apply makeup and drive. The Garden Grove Police Department will step up its efforts in educating the public about the dangers of distracted driving throughout April, and will increase its presence on city streets looking specifically for cases of distracted drivers from Apri

Courtney Lutkus, the development director for American Family Housing in Westminster, is the Citizen of the Year for 2015, and the Kiwanis Club of Westminster is the Organization of the Year. Lutkus has been with American Family Housing for three years. The Westminster nonprofit works to help the homeless and low-income families through v

Murder. Mystery. Action. Comedy. The eighth annual Viet Film Festival has it all – and also highlights Vietnamese filmmakers looking to tell nuanced stories beyond the stereotypes of Vietnamese culture often perpetuated by the media, its organizers say. The Viet Film Fest runs from April 16-19 at the Ultraluxe Cinemas at the

If you drive near Westminster Mall any time soon, you probably will see a few more police cars than usual. That’s because the intersection of Bolsa Avenue and Goldenwest Street, just east of the mall, has one of the highest rates of traffic collisions in Westminster, police say. Most of the crashes, they say, are because of

Dust off your sneakers and remember to stretch your quads – the 12th annual Run 4 Homeless Children race, benefiting the Garden Grove nonprofit Thomas House Family Shelter, is Saturday morning at Mile Square Park. The event – which began as a simple walk-a-thon but has, over the past three years, added USA Track & Field-ce

Westminster is saying hello to spring again. After a successful resurrection of the Spring Festival in 2014 after an eight-year hiatus, the celebration will take over much of the Civic Center’s exterior Saturday – complete with a craft fair, live entertainment and 70 or so booths selling food, jewelery, clothing and more.